Ken Block will make his first World Rally Championship appearance in four years when he contests this year’s Rally Catalunya. The 50-year-old will tackle the Spanish event on October 25-28 at the wheel of a M-Sport Ford Fiesta entered under his Hoonigan Racing Division banner alongside regular co-driver Alex Gelsomino. It will mark his first

Citroen’s chief executive officer Linda Jackson says any decision about whether Sebastien Loeb returns to the World Rally Championship full-time in 2019 remains entirely in the nine-time champion’s hands. Loeb won a quarter of the stages on last weekend’s Tour of Corsica, despite last competing on the island 10 years earlier and having been away

FIA president Jean Todt has denied having an agenda against including an endurance element to events in the World Rally Championship. At last week’s Tour de Corse, Todt told Autosport that he still saw endurance as very much part of the appeal and challenge of the WRC. But in recent years, event organisers have collectively

Sebastien Ogier sealed victory in the World Rally Championship’s Tour de Corse with a comfortable run through the final two stages of the event on Sunday. The Frenchman gave up nearly one third of his advantage over Ott Tanak in the 55.17km Vero-Sarrola-Carcopino stage, but he still started the power stage with a gap of

Jari-Matti Latvala has praised the improved side-impact protection on World Rally Championship cars following the crash which ruled him out of the 2018 Tour de Corse on Saturday. The left-hand corner of the Finn’s Toyota struck a tree near the end of the second run of the 21-mile Cagnano-Pino-Canari test. The car was retired from

World Rally Championship points leader Sebastien Ogier continues his dominance of the Tour de Course, while Kris Meeke’s Citroen C3 crashed out of second place. Thierry Neuville and Meeke started the final stage of the day, the 10.8 mile Novella stage, with identical overall times. On Novella, where Meeke has hit major trouble in each

M-Sport driver Sebastien Ogier increased his lead of the Tour de Corse to 41.6 seconds after the Saturday morning loop of his home round of the World Rally Championship. Ogier edged Thierry Neuville on each of the three stages of the second day of the first dry asphalt rally of the season to build his

Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville says he will let Sebastien Ogier go and focus on holding onto second place during the rest of the Tour de Corse. World champion Ogier has won three of the day’s four stages to build a 33-second lead over chief title rival and last year’s Corsica winner Neuville, who is only

World Rally Championship leader Sebastien Ogier will head into Saturday with a lead of 33.6 seconds over Thierry Neuville, after winning three out of four stages in Corsica on Friday. Although he started the afternoon loop with a lead of 21.2s, Ogier said he drove the first stage of the afternoon – the second pass

A frustrated Sebastien Loeb will return to the Tour de Corse tomorrow following his early exit from his home round of the World Rally Championship on Friday morning. The Frenchman, on the second event of his planned three-rally WRC return, retired from the opening day after sliding off the road close to the start of

Sebastien Ogier stormed into an early lead of the World Rally Championship’s first full asphalt rally of the season in Corsica, while Sebastien Loeb crashed on the second stage. Nine-time champion Loeb’s hopes of victory in the second of his three planned 2018 outings with Citroen came to an abrupt end on the second stage

Citroen driver Kris Meeke says he will not get carried away by his stunning shakedown time at the Tour de Corse on Thursday. Meeke blitzed the opposition on the 3.38-mile shakedown stage, beating his nearest rival – Hyundai’s Andreas Mikkelsen – by 2.2 seconds. Meeke’s team-mate Sebastien Loeb was 5.8s down on the sister C3

Despite not competing on Corsica for a decade, Sebastien Loeb’s World Rally Championship rivals say the Frenchman starts among the favourites for victory at this week’s Tour de Corse. Loeb made a storming return to the WRC by leading last month’s Rally Mexico before a puncture ruled out him out of the race for victory

A regulation change to stop World Rally Championship crews taking a tactical approach to powerstages has been ratified by the FIA. Crews delayed checking into the final stage on Rally Sweden and Rally Mexico so they could start further down the order, benefitting from improved grip on the roads after cars ahead had swept loose

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. 2003 World Rally Champion co-driver Phil Mills will return to top flight rallying alongside Elfyn Evans at next week’s Tour of Corsica. Evans’ regular co-driver Dan Barritt went through a medical on Saturday – following the sixth-gear crash that ruled him

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb says his preparations for next week’s Tour of Corsica World Rally Championship round were more straightforward than for Rally Mexico earlier this month. The nine-time WRC champion made his first start in the series for three years in Mexico,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville’s Hyundai i20 Coupe was left stranded in a river after crashing on his day-long Corsica test on Wednesday. Neuville, who won the French island event 12 months ago, was concluding the Korean squad’s running time in preparation for next

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport’s Ford Fiesta World Rally Car has benefited from NASCAR technology following its first trip to North Carolina earlier this month. Sebastien Ogier’s Rally Mexico-winning Fiesta was flown to Ford Performance in Charlotte directly after the last WRC round. M-Sport’s head

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen has set its former World Rally Car driver Stephane Lefebvre the clear target of proving the new C3 R5’s potential by winning the 2018 WRC2 championship. Lefebvre starts his WRC2 campaign on the Tour of Corsica next week. The all-new

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sometime World Rally driver Alexey Lukyanuk started his 2018 European Rally Championship title pursuit with victory in the Azores Rally, beating local hero Ricardo Moura. Lukyanuk, who finished fourth in the championship last year after missing two rounds due to a

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new rule is almost certain be in place for the next round of the World Rally Championship eliminating the likelihood of a tactical approach being taken to the powerstage. The final stage of the last two rounds of the series

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A radical revamp of the Rally Finland route means the famous Ouninpohja stage will be absent from the World Rally Championship event’s itinerary in 2018. In an effort to contain the rising speeds the latest generation of World Rally Cars are

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship team M-Sport has started working on an electric rally car. The reigning champion team says the all-new car – which will likely be based on a Ford Fiesta R5 chassis – is being aimed at domestic, single-day events

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen team principal Pierre Budar says he is open to Sebastien Loeb extending his World Rally Championship return beyond the three events planned so far. Loeb led last weekend’s Rally Mexico before a puncture on Saturday morning dropped him to his

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport is confident Elfyn Evans’s co-driver Dan Barritt will be fit in time for the next World Rally Championship round in Corsica after being injured in their Mexico crash. Barritt was diagnosed with mild concussion and advised not to continue after

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen World Rally Championship driver Kris Meeke says he has “no excuses” for not winning Rally Mexico and was “frustrated as hell” with his run to third place. The 2017 Mexico winner led after Friday’s second stage but a series of

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport will appeal a penalty that cost World Rally Championship leader Sebastien Ogier his four powerstage bonus points from Rally Mexico. Rally winner Ogier was penalised for touching the barrier at a chicane and had 10 seconds added to his stage

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier stayed out of trouble to reclaim the World Rally Championship points lead with a dominant victory on Rally Mexico, beating Dani Sordo and Kris Meeke. Despite the disadvantage of running second on the road on both Friday and Saturday,

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship teams have disregarded communication from the FIA asking them not to take a tactical approach to the Rally Mexico powerstage. Sebastien Ogier took penalties to start last month’s Rally Sweden powerstage late in an effort to run further

Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier claimed four stage wins on Saturday afternoon to extend his Rally Mexico lead to more than 35 seconds heading into the final leg on Sunday. The reigning World Rally champion began the day in fifth but made progress thanks